Salvador Dalí
BOOK. DALI DE DRAEGER:
30 by 28 cm. Approx. 258 pp. 243 text illustrations, mostly in colour and full-page, including a roll of one-sided reproductions, loose in tube case.
No. 517 of an edition limited to 1500 copies, with original bronze medallion (L'Unicorne Dyonisiaque", no. 517, 8 cm. in diameter, signed S. D. in the design.
First edition, "l'édition de luxe numérotée, sous emboïtage spécial, comportant une couverture faite d'un Montre molle et une Médaille de bronze L'Unicorne Dionysiaque frappée, numérotée à cette occasion par la Monnaie de Paris".
Edited and arranged by Max Gérard.
Publisher's linen red linen, with "melted watch" in metal mounted on upper cover. Kept in original portfolio box. Minor natural wear to inside of box.
Designer
Salvador Dalí, was born in 1904 in Spain and died in 1989. He is one of the most popular artists of the 20th century and one of our most noted surrealists. Dalí's early paintings show the influence of Cubism, Pittura Metafisica and novelty. He was also largely inspired by classical masters. In 1927 Dalí came to Paris, and in 1929 he was included in the surrealist group with André Bréton as the leader. Dalí was very much influenced by Freud's paranoid-critical method, which means that everything is interpreted symbolically.
Few people have such a peculiar universe as Salvador Dali, where an imaginative mix of madness performed with technical perfection and accuracy reigns. As an artist, Dalí was a true renaissance-man who worked in art, film, literature, theatre and fashion. All these different strings and his popularity still today show that his art expressed something that no one else could transfer from thought to work.
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